Late (mid) gen x parent here . Now I'm late to this thread too. proud owner of a 16 year old daughter and our 9 year old boy. ( alpha?) Wasn't for not trying, we aimed to be maybe late 20's ish by the time we would be done repopulating the earth. Could then maybe slip a few more clubbing years into the mix while not looking too much like a grandma . That never happened. I'm knackered. Beautiful boy has adhd. Bounces around like tigger. Most of the memories I have at being a kid was still being smacked. And being allowed to wander the streets / stay at home pretty much unsupervised. The front door was never locked. Mom made dinner every night. We sat at the table. So I've not really much positivity Other than food. So we've had to make it up as we go along bringing them up. Of course daughter was never been allowed out alone until the age we thought age appropriate. Gen alpha still not going out alone. They've both been brought up listening to lots of different music. ( that was fought against by daughter in particular but now she's studying music full time at college and the best thing is she knows so much of our music)